Wealth, Fame, and Power! W. D. Gaster, The King of The Pirates, had all those and the rest of what the world had to offer! Through many battles and trials, he had reached the pinnacle of the world's virtues and had nothing left but an illness that plagued him.
He brought himself in and was held at a worldwide public execution. Before he was executed, a man from the crowd asked:
"Where did you hide all your treasure?!"
To which the King of Pirates smiled and said:
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left the most important treasure in the world on an island! Go and find it! 'For the next pirate that finds the UnderPiece, will be claimed the new King of The Pirates!"
Those were his final words before he was executed. He smiled to his death.
With those words, the world was flipped upside down as he created The Golden Pirate Era! People and already existing pirates from around the works started to sail the seas in search of the treasure that W. D. Gaster claimed to be-
The UnderPiece!
It had been Twenty Years since, and people have yet to find the treasure he was talking about. Except for one girl, who is now going to change the world by storm for the sake of her people.
This is the story of Muffet D. Baker and her way to becoming Queen of the Pirates!
Sharp breaths, deep pain, and slow agony. All of which is what Ralsei was feeling. She was by the nearest tree that Cassidy left her by.
She had to resort to tearing her trademark cloak in half and using it as a gauze. She wrapped both the strips of the cloak around her wounds that were located on both her femurs. She was completely immobilized and in excruciating pain.
She rested her sore muscles and leaned against the black tree. She sucked air through her teeth and slumped to un-tense her muscles.
As being a trained and practical doctor, she learned that a regulated breathing technique helps reduce pain and muscle comfort. She closed her eyes and began to stay breathing in normal and lengthy paces.
The occasional tear escaped her eye every so often, the sharp but numbing pain in her legs. She could no longer walk, nor could she see clearly due to her shock and tears.
The intoxicating sun was hitting her, making her lose focus and reason, being an Anti-Albino made her body act anonymously when exposed to sunlight. She couldn't control what she would become, or know what she'll be.
It was one of the few things she couldn't cure.
Ralsei was just awaiting her death, the lady on the phone with Cassidy, was said to arrive exactly where she was. All she was able to do was crawl a couple of meters before feeling exhausted.
She knew it was a matter of time before she would arrive and finish her off, or worse, torture her.
And from what she heard and saw, Undyne and Hera were essentially down for the count. And Susie and Muffet were gone, probably unaware of what was happening.
She too didn't truly know what was happening on this island.
Why is the land below the quartz mountain all poverty and unattended and gloomy?
Why are there people after them when the World Government promised their safety?
Who is really behind this?
Why was she truly scared of Hera although she was out of the equation?
What was the prophecy?
Who are these people with codenames? And are they with the King?
There was a lot that was unanswered, all of which she probably won't be alive to see.
"Ahh...This sucks, doesn't it?"
She spoke to herself, to numb out the pain in her legs. Her blood was hardening on her black fur, clumping it against her skin uncomfortably.
Her hat slipped off her head, she was too unmotivated to pick it up.
"I'm sorry...that I'm not strong enough..."
She sucked in air through her teeth and started sobbing. Her skin was beginning to sizzle underneath the winter sun. Although it was a mildly cold environment, the sun hitting her skin felt like acid.
The color of the trees around her helped her with the sunlight. It absorbed some of the sunlight but some were still escaped in beams through the tree leaves.
Steam from the contact was seeping from the pours that the sunlight was hitting.
"If only I was a stronger teammate...things would not have to be so grim...Hera's gone...Undyne is being tortured and kidnapped...I could've atleast saved and healed Undyne if I was able to defeat her...Why am I so weak?"
Ralsei began started to emit black charring smoke. She started to smell like burning flesh.
"Undyne can have an almost endless amount of stamina and physical strength, her willpower is enormous too...Muffet seems to be full of hidden potential and carries our weight whenever we were in a pinch...Susie is a magical wildcard, a true prodigy, and Undyne's protege...and Hera is an ancient weapon, perfectly designed to cause the end of the world...and what am I...?"
The left side of her face ignited in flames, she was unmoved by the burning pain, as her crisis was much worse than that.
"I haven't even won a single fight in my life...I have fought with Muffet and Undyne since our meeting...it's been months since and countless adventures and I still haven't won a single fight...What does it take to be strong?"
Just as the fire was spreading down to her neck and engulfing her entire face, she was kicked along the side of the face, making her tumble across the floor.
The friction of sodden dirt put out the flames, but now her head was feeling almost as bad as her legs.
"Tch-! Cassidy left you in worse shape than I imagined! It doesn't matter, the beautiful Aphrodite will amaze you in her glorious presence!"
Ralsei ignored the lady, not even glancing her way, her face was devoid of fur, it was just black skin with several degrees of burns. She was face-planted onto the dirt, not wanting to even give the lady a chance to be acknowledged. She mumbled something that Aphrodite couldn't hear.
This made her mad.
"Stupid wench! Your crew murdered my partner! And after someone as beautiful as I, grants you permission to be forgiven! What do you have to say for yourself?!"
Ralsei just mumbled again unenthusiastically. Not glancing, nor moving.
Aphrodite was even more pissed. She walked angrily to the heavily damaged and near-death goat girl. Ralsei couldn't see, but she heard the sound of high heels.
The lady raised her leg and stomped on the back of Ralsei's head, rubbing her face in the dirt.
"Master Hydra will not be pleased by your acts against him! He didn't spend five years here just to have his plans soiled by underclass pirates like you and your crew!"
Ralsei mumbled angrily. The sun was still hitting her back. However, it stopped burning.
Aphrodite scooped the under part of Ralsei with the incline of her heel and flipped her over while simultaneously kicking her to the nearest tree.
Her back hit the cold hard trunk of the tree and Ralsei spat out blood. Her face was entirely disfigured.
She was de-furred, burnt beyond belief, huge clumps of her skin were a burned brown and her left eye was completely red. She had blisters along her forehead and chin. Her snout was entirely one huge scar.
Her legs were in no good shape either.
All she could was blurrily stare at the woman in front of her.
This woman named "Aphrodite", dressed way too elegantly for the job she was tasked with. However, although Ralsei knew she was weak, she could tell that this woman didn't have much going for her in the physical feats department. She was just a really beautiful woman.
Aphrodite posed so that her forearm scooped up her mounds and limply pointed at her simultaneously.
"Don't you want to know how my Devil Fruit works? Well it-"
"I don't care..."
Aphrodite's eyes widened by how unenthusiastic Ralsei sounded by the whole situation.
"What did you say you D-list bi-"
"I don't care..."
Aphrodite was taken aback by this, she was silent. Usually, with her Devil Fruit and body combo, she could seduce and sway anyone. Both other races and species, married men and women would fall for her by the sight of her. She would get away with so much crime just because she was beautiful.
Ralsei chuckled in a wavering voice.
"I'm tired of fighting strong people, you're all the same to me. To someone as weak and pathetic as me, your strength bores me. The only strength that matters is the strength of my friends."
It was quiet. For minutes. Intense and awkward staring.
Aphrodite stomped her foot which shook the ground around her.
"Well- if my strength doesn't alarm you, then how about my beauty?! My Devil Fruit, the Love-Love no Mi! Anyone that falls in love with me, I can turn to stone! Now behold!"
The lady made a heart symbol with her two hands and projected a photon beam shaped like a heart. It hit Ralsei directly but...it didn't turn her into stone.
Ralsei chuckled.
"There's no way I can even slightly fall for someone like you...I have a man waiting for me in the East Blue, and the pain I'm going through is rejecting anyone emotion other than hysteria."
The lady flinched in surprise as she heard this. This lady was the first person this attack didn't work on.
Ralsei slowly faded out of consciousness.
"Hmph! Good thing that you are almost dead, this exchange should be no problem."
Aphrodite, defeated, walked up to Ralsei and grabbed her by her weak arm, and started to drag her across the dirt. Not caring for the thrill of the fight anymore. She was quite discouraged.
"I can't believe a team full of heathens would even attempt destroying our boss' vision!"
Ralsei lifelessly was being dragged across the blackened dirt that was now turning red with her blood. The sun stopped burning her alive.
The sunlight stopped hurting.
Then suddenly, so did Ralsei. Ralsei stopped.
Stopped being her.
"Why even join a bigger person's bigger cause if you aren't strong enough to support them-?"
Aphrodite fell, she couldn't understand why, she didn't trip, nor did she have any health failures. It was as if the ground beneath her was swept away from her instantaneously.
She caught herself with her free arm, however, she saw that the ground was indeed still there.
Then why did she trip?
She heard a crunching sound. She tried to lift her legs to stand up, but she felt a lot more light. As if she experienced less total mass.
She looked down at her legs and just stared. Then, she started to slowly cover her mouth with her other hand. She started to hyperventilate and grew teary-eyed.
Because she no longer had any legs. Her legs were seemingly bitten off with beast marks.
Aphrodite succumbed to her mysterious injuries and fell back first onto the ground. The awareness and signals kicked in. She started to wail out in pain. Woodland creatures and animals ran from her in her ugly wail.
She heard the sounds of repeated crunching. In her physical shock, she jerked her head to the sound to see... an unfamiliar creature.
It looked like the woman before, Ralsei, but her fur was white and extra thick and long. She somehow regrew her hair which was seemingly burnt off and looked as if she has sustained no injuries.
Her eyes were crimson and beaty red, bloodlust eyes. Her clothes broke away due to her physical change, she seemed to have grown a couple of feet in height and gained a considerable amount of muscle mass from this sudden transformation.
Her hands have black claws that seemed to be as long and sharp as a kitchen knife. Her fangs were bloodied and sharpened, showing to have several rows of teeth.
Just what in the hell was she?!
Aphrodite eyed the source of the crunching, and it was the sound of Ralsei easily crunching and eating her severed legs. She watched as Ralsei effortlessly ate the legs she took from her.
"WHO ARE YOU?! WAIT-! YOU WEREN'T A GOAT PERSON?!"
Ralsei looked at her like a deer caught in headlights. With her soulless beaty red eyes. Aphrodite knew that the goat woman she saw before, wasn't the same one now.
Not at heart.
Aphrodite knew that she was dealing with a wild beast. Truth was, she has only met one person that was from the same race that Ralsei was. And she knew the power they possess under an extremely specific set of celestial circumstances.
"LOOK! IM SORRY ABOUT BEFORE! I'LL FIND A WAY TO GET YOUR CREW BACK AND ILL ARRANGE A SHIP! JUST PLEASE DON'T-"
In a sonic boom, Ralsei lunged from her previous position to the women's neck and gave it a nasty crunch. Excavating most of her neck, leaving only the spinal cord and the muscles it is surrounded by. The women's eyes instantly faded away as she forcefully puked out a gallon of blood onto Ralsei's newly white fur.
Ralsei swallowed the last remaining part of her neck and began harvesting her body. Using her sharp and long claws to dissect this women's tissue and muscle with ease.
After her meal, she growled at the remaining pool of blood and started to sniff around, making sure to be under direct sunlight at all times. Growing slightly more in muscle mass throughout her overexposure to the sun.
She smelled the scent of the people living on the outskirts of the country. The slums and villages out of the grayish-purple sodden land. She snarled and started to run in that direction on all fours.
Ralsei was gone.
Ralsei was no longer a woman of Courage and inept capabilities on the battlefield.
She was now a cold-blooded animal.
She is filled with...
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